Fine-tuning Mac Keyboard Illumination

One of the great features of the PowerBook G4 and macBook Pro is the built-in keyboard backlighting. The illumination allows you to work in low light conditions - like on an airplane - without having to hunt-and-peck to find specific keys. If you want more control over the backlighting than the F8, F9, and F10 keys give you, try out Alexander Reptyis Lab Tick.

Controlling your keyboard brightness from the menu bar.

Lab Tick adds a menu bar item that lets you control your keyboardis brightness with a slider, and also lets you lock the brightness exactly where you want it so that Mac OS X canit change the settings. If the brightness level isnit locked, your Mac will try to change the keyboard illumination level depending on how bright or dark it is where you are working.

Lab Tick lets you lock in a brightness level.

Lab Tick is still in development, so there is a chance that it may not work correctly on your Mac, or that it will break when Apple updates firmware or Mac OS X.

You can download Lab Tick for free at Alexander Reptyis Web site. By the way, itis also a Universal Binary application, so it runs natively on PowerPC and Intel-based Macs... What more could you ask for?

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[This article has been updated to show the correct software authoris name.]